After the bombing of Pearl Harbor some US officials thought the Japanese might have spies hiding among the ethnic Japanese populations in the US so they put the Japanese from the west coast into camps to watch them.
The US population as a whole were too caught up in war hysteria to recognize a difference between Japanese living in Japan and US citizens with Japanese ancestry. They had somewhat less difficulty making a similar distinction between Germans and Italians (also at war with the US) and US citizens with German or Italian backgrounds.
The internment revealed the level of distrust that Americans (and Canadians) had for those of Japanese heritage, and indeed for all Asians.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor some US officials thought the Japanese might have spies hiding among the ethnic Japanese populations in the US so they put the Japanese from the west coast into camps to watch them.
The US population as a whole were too caught up in war hysteria to recognize a difference between Japanese living in Japan and US citizens with Japanese ancestry. They had somewhat less difficulty making a similar distinction between Germans and Italians (also at war with the US) and US citizens with German or Italian backgrounds.
The internment revealed the level of distrust that Americans (and Canadians) had for those of Japanese heritage, and indeed for all Asians.
Many did not trust Japanese Americans. They felt that the Japanese Americans would help the Japanese in the war effort. However there were some that used it as an opportunity to take Japanese American homes and businesses.
Americans did not have the same fears about German Americans or Italian Americans.
Ones with lots of torture
Japanese internment camps sprung up during World War Two. These camps relocated 110,000 Japanese Americans on the West Coast. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was a factor in the development of these camps.
Internment camps
To prevent them from spying or committing sabotage
All of the above. Apex
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US Internment Camps during WW IIThe related link site will have a map of all the Japanese-American Internment camps in the United States during World War II.
Internment camps
the Japanese Americans.
Not anymore, but there were in the Second World War. They were known more commonly as internment camps during those times; the term concentration camp was created by the Nazis in the 1930's.
Bad
Japanese americans..
Ones with lots of torture
internment camps were during the time of ww1. as Australia were fighting against Germany, Australia was very anti Germans like all the allied countries. internment camps is where Australian-Germans were interned. they were unfair as even if you had German in you you may have been interned
Japanese internment camps sprung up during World War Two. These camps relocated 110,000 Japanese Americans on the West Coast. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was a factor in the development of these camps.
Internment Camps were used to confine and isolate people form the outside world.
Internment camps